Kelefa Sanneh

On his first major headlining tour, the Baton Rouge rapper is the calmest person in the room.

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s age of independence.

From the daily newsletter: what’s next for the Latin-trap performer Bad Bunny?

Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming

Music writers were once known for being much crankier than the average listener. What happened?

The Black Sabbath front man set out to capture the sound of evil. Somehow, he became widely loved.

Hardcore was once brutish and insular. Has Turnstile made it popular?

In 1998, Matthew Salacuse took hundreds of pictures of New York commuters. Then he forgot about them for more than twenty years.

Spotify and YouTube barred the song, which salutes Hitler, from their platforms. It found its audience, anyway.

Eager to make the sport feel relevant again, promoters staged a series of fights in one of the most crowded places in America.

The country singer, on her first headlining tour, plays achy-breaky songs about love and its failure to be respectfully reciprocated by various dudes.

Nine years after retiring his alter ego, Pat the Bunny, Patrick Schneeweis is ready to sing again.

Sex, money, morals, and the making of an ever-shifting franchise.

Though the former Democrat has aligned herself with Trump, her true loyalties remain elusive as ever.

The YouTuber turned boxer triumphed over the legend of Iron Mike, and, less impressively, the man himself.

In 2016, the idea that Trump was a cloaked white supremacist made him seem like a fringe character. What does it mean that his popularity has increased?

As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.

How the mayor of Newark is working to revive his city.

Everyone’s headed to Nashville these days, but no one is as comfortable there as he is.

“Está Dañada” was a hit—and a demonstration of the rising importance of two overlapping musical domains. One was the frictionless world of streaming, where there are scarcely any limits to how widely a song can spread. The other was the world of Latin music, which was once treated by the American recording industry as a peripheral enterprise but increasingly occupies a place near its center. In the late twenty-tens, a visionary from Puerto Rico known as Bad Bunny began reeling off a string of da…